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Title: Waiting for the Universe to Begin

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Title: Waiting for the Universe to Begin Title Record # 952208
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1975-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: The Aperture Moment
Series Number: 1
Language: English
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Year Title
1977 Waiting For the Universe To Begin [as by Brian Aldiss]
Year Language Title
1984Translated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Annette%20von%20Charpentier&amp;type=Name&amp;mode=exact">Annette von Charpentier</a>
German Warten auf den Beginn des Universums

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Epoch 1975-11-00 ed. Roger Elwood, Robert Silverberg Berkley/Putnam 0-399-11460-2
$10.95?$: US dollar
viii+
623
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Powers Checkmark
Epoch 1976-02-00 ed. Roger Elwood, Robert Silverberg Berkley/Putnam / SFBC 1798
$3.98?$: US dollar
x+
593
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Powers Checkmark
Epoch 1977-02-00 ed. Roger Elwood, Robert Silverberg Berkley Medallion 0-425-03315-5
$1.95?$: US dollar
viii+
568
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Checkmark
Last Orders and Other Stories 1977-11-00 Brian W. Aldiss Jonathan Cape 0-224-01487-0
£3.95?£: UK pound
223
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Candida Amsden Checkmark
Last Orders and Other Stories 1979-00-00 Brian W. Aldiss Triad Panther 0-586-04681-X
£0.95?£: UK pound
222
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Last Orders and Other Stories 1979-08-00 Brian W. Aldiss Triad Panther / Granada 0-586-04681-X
£1.25?£: UK pound
222
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Peter Goodfellow Checkmark
Die letzte Runde 1984-05-00 Brian W. Aldiss
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special #24056)
3-404-24056-1
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
238+
[1]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Don Maitz Checkmark
Last Orders and Other Stories 1985-00-00 Brian W. Aldiss Triad Panther 0-586-04681-X
£1.95?£: UK pound
222
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Vincent Di Fate Checkmark
New Pathways Into Science Fiction and Fantasy, April-May 1987 1987-04-00 ed. Michael G. Adkisson MGA Services  
$2.50?$: US dollar
38
quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag  
Last Orders 1989-04-00 Brian Aldiss Carroll & Graf 0-88184-458-6
$17.95?$: US dollar
223
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Last Orders 1990-08-00 Brian Aldiss Carroll & Graf (Masters of Science Fiction (Carroll & Graf)) 0-88184-617-1
$3.95?$: US dollar
223
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll John Harris Checkmark
Epoch date unknown ed. Roger Elwood, Robert Silverberg Berkley Medallion 0-425-03315-5
$1.95?$: US dollar
viii+
568
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Checkmark
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